this is one journal waxed and arranged.

It measure 36x48. I thought I was going to work small but I cannot help it. Do I forgo 50% of the work?

these images are my most recent projects having to do with my journals. My menter has given me license to work solely on the books for a week or two. This has been spawning ideas by the millions for me as to where to head. Thinking too much probably.

These pages are white out, sharpies permanent markers in black and red....I love the smell of all of these materials. and the way the markers and whiteout respond and react to eachother. This work has been growing over the course of a couple of years. The books begin as lists that I keep . Grocery lists, lists of things to do, bank account passwords now obscured, poetry, lists of words, names for babies, titles for paintings and playlists for our band Adult Bunnie Suit, Lists of artists to look up, galleries to perhaps contact and direction from google maps , lists of things people say and ideas for everything. When the book gets overwhelming with lists I begin to obscure certain words with white out or marker, leaving an evidence, a new poem emerges from the words left visible. I am not thinking, just making, piling things up like I usually do.
It was great to talk with Aris yesterday and now that I have a new macbookpro I can blob more often.

so, My new project suggested by my mentor, which I am also so thrilled to explore is this...........Scan the pages and enlarge the single pages on heavy paper and use the surfaces as a beginning for single paintings. they are being printed as we speak! I cannot wait to see them large, I know the door will open.


I need more grace than I thought

This spattering of work are some of the new pieces I finished for the show in Blue Hill. There are 9 total.

I love my mentor! I think she will be a good match for me. I have already delved into the assignment she suggested I do to shake up how I go about painting. She says I am an over thinker. So she suggested I just MAKE and not think so much about what it is I am doing and so I am.

I have a stack of used tea bags. Red Rose is the only kind of tea he drinks. It sounds gross but there is something I find quite beautiful about the used bags. They are very organic, delicate and the strings are stained with dry tea. I dipped a few in wax and made a few tea bag angels last Christmas. My collection has grown since as He has been saving his tea bags all year. I found the perfect piece of corragated cardboard, square, it fits 24 teabags in grid. Oh no the grid!

Also, the book project will grow into something very soon. I have been struggling with my writing. It takes time away from the making and I want to be making. I need to just buckle down .

and then I will post some even newer work and maybe some of Jack's as well. He is part of a show that opened last night at the Coleman Burke Gallery in Brunswick. Let me try to do that now.
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